Senior Full Stack Engineer (f/m/d) - Remote in EMEA
Headquarters: Dircksenstraße 47, 10178 Berlin, Germany
URL: https://hygraph.com
How you will make an impact
As our Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will define and implement new features as well as participate in improvements to ensure our user’s experience is best in class. You will leverage your experience with a strong focus on performance and quality to push our product to the next level.
Our tech stack
Our tech stack
- TypeScript, Node.js, React, Golang, PSQL
- GraphQL, REST
- Pulumi, AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare, Fastly, New Relic, Github actions
Some of your tasks and responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely within an autonomous, cross-functional team, solving exciting problems and planning continuous improvements
- Design and implement scalable and performant solutions
- Identify and improve performance, scalability, and testability bottlenecks
- Make architectural decisions and recommendations for creating best in class user experience
- Participate as part of internal Engineering Guilds, to identify architectural improvements, prioritize and act on them
- Bring creative ideas and expertise to the table, having a real impact on our product and engineering practices
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
Expectations timeline
1 Month
You have gone through different onboarding sessions covering our product, current architecture, and relevant services we run on production, learned about the company's origin and current vision and met colleagues from different departments as part of onboarding as well as weekly virtual social events.
You'd have started to get to know your teammates, learned how we work daily, and contributed to our codebase.
3 Months
You will be familiar with most concepts related to our product and worked alongside your teammates to deliver features and improvements on production successfully.
You'd have had a few 1:1s with your team lead to check in on how things are going, you will have participated in some Engineering Guild sessions and collaborated with fellow engineers to improve our architecture and developer experience.
6 Months
You will have made solid contributions to our product and stack, influenced our ways of working, shared knowledge and previous experiences, helping substantially with important decision-making.
Job requirements
What we expect from you:
- 6+ years of JS/TS full stack development experience with a strong Backend focus, ideally Node.js
- Experience building user interfaces, ideally using React
- Experience writing testable code, following best practices and design patterns when applicable
- Experience with developing APIs, ideally using GraphQL and/or REST
- Strong industry experience in architecture and development of scalable production quality backend systems
- Solid experience with modern relational databases, SQL, and understanding of data modeling, indexing, etc.
- Exposure to Golang or interest in learning it
- Mindful about performance and able to measure it meaningfully
- Strong expertise in analyzing product requirements and creating technical designs
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to take ownership, but also ask for help and advice when needed
- Openness to feedback and willingness to learn, reflect, and grow within the organization
- Experience in successfully driving technical, business, and people-related initiatives that improved productivity, performance, and quality
Bonus points:
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with cloud-based development (AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
- Experience with web performance monitoring
- Knowledge of Docker and containerized applications
- Experience mentoring other teammates to grow and improve continuously
The Process
- Intro call with our People & Culture team.
- Technical interview with the Engineering team.
- Team Fit call.
- Reference Check and Offer.
The response time is usually within 2 weeks for each step. You could expect some alterations when necessary.
About us
At Hygraph we're building the leading GraphQL Federated Content Platform. Our goal is to enable developers and content operators to create, enrich, unify, and deliver content across platforms seamlessly. We are trusted to manage content for teams from over 50,000 organizations like Telenor, Burrow, Gamescom, and Shure. With over $10M in funding from OpenOcean, Peak, and Paua Ventures, you will be part of a remote-first and globally distributed team of over 60 colleagues, committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately.
Working at Hygraph
- Competitive salary package with an uncapped bonus.
- Our teams are passionate about our product.
- Self-motivation, trust, and collaboration is the driving factor for our success.
- We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership.
- We have a workstation budget to support the remote work on top of providing the latest company IT equipment (e.g. Macbook).
- We are curious, risk-takers, and we experiment with our ideas and make things happen.
- We work together to provide optimal solutions for our users and adapt to the people and market needs.
- Our flexible working model encourages us to work according to what works best for us and maintain an excellent work-life balance.
- We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences.
- We are an international and friendly team spread across 17 countries, coming together once a year for our annual off-site/retreat.
Hygraph is an equal-opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace's productivity and promote innovation and creativity.
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